Abstract: An arrangement for use on a vehicle, especially truck for transporting portable bridges, with the sections of a portable bridge being adapted to be arranged one above the other on support frames, and being adapted to be received on the support frames, by means of a bridge placing apparatus. The support frames are distributed over the effective length, behind the cab of the particular truck, and secured to the frame or the like thereof. The support frames are provided as independent components, releasably securable to the vehicle frame or to a loading platform, and the support frame immediately adjacent the cab is provided with a pivot drive arrangement for moving the sections of the portable bridge in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 1979
Date of Patent:
November 10, 1981
Assignee:
Magirus-Deutz Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Gerhard Wagner, Dieter Nagel, Georg Kessler
Abstract: An ornamental molding or grill for a motor vehicle body, especially for the front section of the driver's cab of a truck, which grill is provided with a ribbed surface having air passages therethrough and extending at least over the major portion of the width of the vehicle body. The air passages are provided in substantially horizontally extending flanks of the ribs, and the space between the ribs serves as channel for the impacting air.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 12, 1977
Date of Patent:
March 13, 1979
Assignee:
Magirus-Deutz Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Leonhard Schmude, Luan P. Hasnay, Dieter V. Amende, Peter Lettermann
Abstract: A vehicle, especially a wheeled vehicle, for transporting and placing bridge parts of a portable bridge. The vehicle has a frame, on the forward end of which is mounted a cab. Behind the cab is mounted a support unit for use in placing the bridge parts. The support unit is pivotal about vertical axes and, during the placement process, is spaced from and in front of the cab and is located, in part, on the ground.
Abstract: A self-propelled crossing and floating bridge implement with a main floating body and a plurality of auxiliary floating bodies which when the vehicle is used as a land vehicle are arranged above the main floating body on the deck surface thereof. The auxiliary floating bodies are together pivotable toward one longitudinal side of the implement alongside the main floating body. When the vehicle is used as land vehicle, the auxiliary floating bodies are covered up by a buoyancy body which when the vehicle is to be used as crossing and floating implement is pivotable to a position alongside the other longitudinal side of the implement. In this last mentioned position of the main floating body the latter is covered by a roadway plate pivotally connected to the main floating body.